Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-308) and index
Adam Smith: political economist cum moral philosopher -- Edmund Burke: apologist for Judaism? -- George Eliot: the wisdom of Dorothea -- Jane Austen: the education of Emma -- Charles Dickens: "a low writer" -- Benjamin Disraeli: the Tory imagination -- John Stuart Mill: the other Mill -- Walter Bagehot: a divided nature -- Lord Acton: the historian as moralist -- Alfred Marshall: the economics of chivalry -- John Buchan: an untimely appreciation -- The Knoxes: a God-haunted family -- Michael Oakeshott: the conservative disposition -- Winston Churchill: quite simply, a great man -- Lionel Trilling: the moral imagination